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Yol. 80 No. 116 CJSPS 045360 14 pages
College Station, Texas
Thursday, March 21,1985
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■ AUSTIN — The House approved
I bill Wednesday which would in-
j-ease college tuition at state-fi-
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in go tin andlwiB g C p iescnIat i vt . s a | s<) tentatively
this Sun Belt® Approved a bill that would allow
Khool administrators to expel stu-
t dnits who present a danger to other
- theftsi Students in a classroom.
ii A tu >tion bill introduced by
Rep Wilhemina Delco, I)-Aus-
double undergraduate
sident tuition for the 1985-19K6
hod year. Non-resident
odd triple.
Delco said the bill would enable
Jhe legislature Ur fund state colleges
Bind universities at or near current
•fi.'l percent in ISBunding levels. The proposal would
■vious year, accoBenerate an extra S200 million in
artment of ^Bpe revenues during the next two
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lindergraduate resident students
tn $4 per semester credit hour to
for the 1985-85 school year and
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Non-resident tuition would be
raised from $40 per hour to $120
for the 1985-86 year and then to
$180 for 1986-87. Non-resident stu
dents would then be required to pay
100 percent of their education costs.
The bill would also raise tuition
for post-graduate studies.
The school expulsion bill by Rep.
Bill Haley, D-Center, would give lo
cal school districts authority to sus
pend a student for up to six days a
semester if the student presents a
danger in the school.
The education reform package
last year called for alternative educa
tion programs for students rather
than suspension or expulsion, when
ever possible.
Another vote is needed to send
the bill to the Senate.
The bill would provide school dis
tricts with an option rather than re
quiring them to seek other educatio
nal programs for the troubled
students.
Haley, chairman of the House
Public Education Committee, said
Texas schools are incurring a $9 mil
lion price tag for alternative educa
tion programs under the current
system.
Several attempts by Rep. A1 Gran-
off, D-Dallas, to amend the bill
failed.
“This is going to affect thousands
of felonies in the state of Texas,”
Cranoff said. He said the expulsions
will only put the troubled students
on the streets, thus leading to addi
tional problems.
An amendment by Rep. Gregory.
Luna, D-San Antonio, would allow
the student to receive partial credit
for homework the student makes up
as a result of his or her suspension.
The House also tentatively ap
proved, 83-55, a bill by Rep. Ed
Kuempel, R-Seguin, which would
exempt independent school districts
and their contractors from having to
pay prevailing local wages on con
struction projects.
Kuempel said the rates are in
tended to protect local workers but
some rates, which vary drastically
among school districts, cause less
competitive pressure and higher
bids.
In other action the House ap
proved and sent to the Senate a bill
that would raise the price of a mar
riage license from $7.50 to $15.
House members also tentatively
approved a proposal that would ex
tend a law requiring three signed
copies of drug prescriptions. One
would be kept by the physician, one
by the pharmacist and the other
would go to the Department of Pub
lic Safety.
KE SANCHEZ
Down For The Count
Ross Volunteer juniors (left to right) Mor- Wednesday afternoon. Mud Day is a day in
gan I^vy, Mark Scjhulze and Kevin Morton the spring semester, picked by the juniors,
force the head of senior Sean McCaffery into giving them a chance to “get even” with the
a mud pit. The RV held its annual Mud Day seniors.
House initiates bill requiring
stiffer penalties for hazing
By TRENT LEOPOLD
Staff Writer
Hazing incidents at Texas A&M
helped initiate a Texas House bill to
increase the penalties of hazing, an
assistant to State Rep. David Patron-
ella, D-Houston, said Tuesday.
Patronella filed a bill March 7 that
would increase the maximum pun
ishment for hazing to one to two
years in jail and a $5,000 to $10,000
fine.
Tom Reed, assistant to Patronella
said the recent death of Texas A&M
cadet Bruce Goodrich awoke the
public to the fact that hazing is a
crime. And that crime should carry a
harsher punishment, he said
The current maximum punish
ment for hazing is three months in
jail and a fine of $250.
Under the bill, consent of the
hazing victim would be no legal de
fense and hazing would be possible
even if the victim gives his consent.
The bill recommends a fine of
$500 to $1,000 and three to six
months in jail for hazing involving
no injuries, and a $1,000 to $5,000
fine and six months to one year in
jail for hazing causing an injury.
The bill recommends a $5,000 to
$10,000 fine and one to two years in
jail for hazing resulting in death.
The bill also says alumni organiza
tions are guilty of hazing if they kno
wingly permit, encourage or assist in
a hazing incident.
Earlier this month Corps of Cadet
sophomore Joseph Gassman of
Frankfurt, West Germany was sus
pended for forcing a freshman to
perform unauthorized exercises.
Nine upperclassmen have been
summoned to hearings in connec
tion with another Corps incident in
volving 10 cadets.
According to a report released by
the Committee to Halt Useless Col
lege Killings in New York, hazing
will likely be a criminal act by the
endof'1985.
Seventeen states already have laws
specifically outlawing hazing and
setting up criminal penalties for
hazing. v
Student Senate passes housing bill
Grad student dorm space recommended
By JERRY OSLIN
Staff Writer
he Student Senate passed a bill
Wednesday night that recommends
the University Housing Office re
serve dormitory space for single
graduate students entering Texas
A&M for one year.
“There is dorm space on campus
that is not being filled,” said Sen.
Brian Hay. “This bill will help attract
graduate students because on-cam
pus housing is a factor in deciding
what school to go to.”
But Sen. Rhonda Duckers dis
agreed with the bill because she said
the University currently is not able
to house all incoming freshmen.
“There’s an emotional need for
freshmen to live on campus,” she
said. “A lot of freshmen need sup
port and guidance from other stu
dents.”
The Senate also passed a bill that
calls on the University to estabish a
coed dormitory on campus.
The bill said one dormitory
should be established as coed on an
experimental basis to find out if
there is a demand for such housing.
“There have been coed dorms in
the past at Texas A&M,” Hay said.
“Security wouldn’t be a problem be
cause everybody would know every
body else in the dorm.”
But Duckers said some students
wouldn’t like the bill because they
would be moved out to make room
for the other students.
“People have a feeling for their
dorm,” she said. “They aren’t going
to like being moved out to make
room for some other student.”
The two housing bills were passed
even though they were rejected by
RHA.
Hay said RHA rejected the grad
uate housing bill because it would
take away dormitory space from en
tering freshmen. It gave no reason
for rejecting the coed housing bill,
he said.
The Senate was scheduled to vote
on a bill that would call on the Uni
versity to prohibit demonstrations in
and around the Memorial Student
Center but Wayne Roberts, vice
president of student services, said it
was killed in committee.
The Senate also passed a bill that
would allow all Student legislation to
be forwarded to the president of the
University as well as to John Koldus,
vice president of student services.
Tom Urban, vice president of aca
demic affairs and the bill’s sponsor,
said reporting to the University’s
president would make the Senate
more effective.
“President Vandiver has received
only two pieces of Student Senate
legislation in the past two years,” he
said. “By reporting directly to him,
he will have the opportunity to see
all our legislation and that will make
us more effective.”
Hay also said the Senate should
report to the president.
“We represent the the students of
Texas A&M and our legislation
should go to the top to where the
power is.” he said.
Late in the meeting, an attempt
was made by Urban and some sen
ators to override Student Body Pres
ident David Alder’s veto of a resolu
tion that would have recognized the
Gay Student Services Organization.
But the motion to override the veto
was voted down in a voice vote.
Last core curriculum hearing today
By KIRSTEN DIETZ
Staff Writer
Today is the last chance for stu
dents and faculty to express their
opinion of the Faculty Senate’s rec
ommended core curriculum.
The Core Curriculum Subcom
mittee will hold a public hearing at
4:30 p.m. in 504 Rudder Tower.
After a low turnout for the first
hearing, attendance improved sig
nificantly for the second hearing,
Patty Steele, Faculty Senate secre
tary, says.
Steele says while only a few stu
dents attended, about 15 faculty
members stayed for the entire meet
ing.
Dr. Paul Parrish, vice chairman of
the subcommittee, says most of the
response to the recommendations
have been positive.
“But most of what we have heard
has been aimed at offering modifica
tions or improvements,” he says.
The Faculty Senate will not vote
on the core curriculum until the
April or May meeting.
If the Senate passes the proposal,
it must be approved by Texas A&M
President Frank E. Vandiver before
it can go into effect.
It would not be applicable to the
students for several years.
The core curriculum report rec
ommends that each student take six
hours each of speech and writing
skills, mathematical or logical rea
soning, cultural heritage and social
science and eight hours of science.
This is in addition to the state re
quirements of six hours of both
American history and political sci
ence and the University requirement
of four hours of physical education.
Also, the report recommends that
each student take one course in com
puter science, unless they have com
pleted at least one course prior to
entering the University or can dem
onstrate proficiency on an examina
tion.
The report also proposes that
each student complete two semesters
of a foreign language unless they
have taken two semesters in high
school or can demonstrate profi
ciency in a second language.
State Senate
passes new
drinking bill
Associated Press
AUSTIN — The Senate voted
Wednesday to make it illegal to
drink and (drive in Texas, a measure
sponsor Bill Sarpalius said he hopes
will eventually save lives.
“A number of states have come
out and shown it will, indeed, reduce
the number of (traffic) fatalities,”
Sarpalius, D-Canyon, told the Sen
ate. “Many of you have run surveys
in your own senatorial districts, and
you have found that there has been a
tremendous amount of support
throughout the state to ban open
containers.”
Sarpalius’ bill, which cleared com
mittee Monday only after he agreed
to limit the drinking ban to drivers
— not passengers — was sent to the
House on voice vote. If approved by
the House, the bill would go into ef
fect Sept. 1.
The measure would make it illegal
for a driver to drink or be caught
holding an open alcoholic beverage
container while operating a motor
vehicle. Violators would be given a
ticket with fines running up to $200.
“What the Department of Public
Safety tells us is tnat just by having a
law on the books to make it illegal to
drink and drive, 80 percent of the
people will comply witn it," Sarpalius
told reporters.
Asked what law officers could do,
for example, to stop a driver from
simply passing an open beer to a pas
senger, Sarpalius said, “What we
find is that in most cases if two peo
ple are sitting in the’front seat, both
are usually drinking ... and if one
person is caught holding two cans of
beer ... the peace officer has a pretty
good case in that situation.”
Senators also approved and sent
to the House proposals that would:
• Abolish the Texas Merit System
Council at a savings of $276,866 to
the state over the next two years.
The council, in operation since
1981, has provided a merit-based
personnel system for state employ
ees in accordance with federal regu
lations, which no longer require con
tinuation of the council as a separate
agency.
• Require a paid legislator rep
resenting a person before a state
agency to file a statement describing
what he has been hired to do.
• Allow the Texas Department of
Mental Health and Mental Retarda
tion to use pi ojected costs of provid
ing services so the agency can collect
maximum reimbursement rates,
which should result in a gain of $5.9
million a year for the state.
• Authorize proceeds from the
sale of Permanent School Fund land
to be used to acquire other land for
that fund, which finances Texas’
public schools.
Reagan press
conference
scheduled
for tonight
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan will hold his third news
conference this year at 8 p.m. to
day in the East Room of the
White House, sticking with his
new goal of meeting with the
press once a month.
It will be Reagan’s 29th news
conference since he took office in
1981, and the first since the death
March 11 of Soviet leader
Konstantin U. Chernenko.
The president is expected to be
questioned closely on his express
ion of interest in a summit with
the new Kremlin chief, Mikhail S.
Gorbachev.
Reagan’s last news conference
was on Feb. 21.